FOREVER CHANGES

Barozzi / Veiga designed an extension for Bündner Kunstmuseum in Switzerland

Apparatu design studio revives family values

Peris + Toral Arquitectes uses scaffolding to create temporary pavilion in Barcelona »

Alejandro de la Sota

“A questa domanda, da ragazzi, i miei amici davano sempre la stessa risposta: “La fessa”. Io, invece, rispondevo: “L'odore delle case dei vecchi”. La domanda era: “Che cosa ti piace di più veramente nella vita?” Ero destinato alla sensibilità. Ero destinato a diventare uno scrittore. Ero destinato a diventare Jep Gambardella.“

Takamasa Yoshizaka and Juichi Otake. Sinkentiku. Dec 1956: 52 | RNDRD

Contemporary refurbishment of a traditional Portuguese town house by Estudio ODS

(Denys Lasdun)

MARK ROTHKO (1903-1970), The Rothko Chapel in Houston TX with large mural paintings by the artist (1964-1967, chapel completed 1971). / Rothko Chapel

ISAMU NOGUCHI, Playgroung design (model) for Ala Moana Park in Hawaii, 1939. 

CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI, Atelier Brancusi, Place George Pompidou, Paris. / Pinterest

GIO PONTI, Flatware for Krupp Berndorf, Germany (1933). Material stainless steel. / Klat Magazine

ALVAR AALTO, Lighting for the Paimio Sanatorium´s Canteen, Paimio, Finland, 1928-1933. / Suomen Museot Online

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“The Library of Babel” is a terrifying and beautiful story by prophetic Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, written when he was employed shelving books in the city library.  First published in a shorter version as “The Total Library,” this dense, nine-page story concerns a library that houses all of the books ever written and yet to be written. The Library is arranged non-hierarchically; all of the volumes — from the most rudimentary to the most inscrutable — are equally important in this infinite space. Its rooms are hexagons. Its staircases are broken.  The Library’s many visitors — elated, dogmatic and anguished types are all represented — strangle one another in the corridors. They fall down air shafts and perish. They weep, or go mad. Desperate characters hide in the bathrooms, “rattling metal disks inside dice cups,” hoping to mind-read the call number for a missing canonical text. Others, overcome with “hygienic, ascetic rage,” stand before entire walls of books, denouncing the volumes, raising their fists. 

grüneHAUS Structure Assembly